Accountable Care Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

If people smile, nod, and say "yes" at your company, maybe it's time to start an argument. According to HBS professor Michael Roberto, the lack of good conflict—constructive conflict—within an organization makes it that much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Robert A. Chesebrough

Chesebrough organized the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company in 1875, of which he was president until 1908. Chesebrough’s firm began with the production of kerosene, but after 1881 focused solely on the manufacturing of Vaseline.... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of appreciation and View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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Best Practices | Information Technology

your home office is safe and secure, both for benefit of the University and for the benefit of you and your loved ones. Encrypting Email When sending sensitive information to other people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what... View Details

06 Mar 2020
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‘Can everyone mute?’ Coronavirus means we must telecommute. We’re not ready

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

copy the strategy without having the underlying core principles in place will always be behind the vanguard. Public accountability via end-to-end responsibility. Societal purpose and values help meet an emerging public demand that... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

investment – at huge scale – with transparency and accountability – to attack these challenges? Papa Njiae, Madani Tall, Pippa Tubman Armerding and John Macomber. I’m the faculty chair of the HBS Africa Research Center and a member of the... View Details

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

felt comfortable moving on and knowing that the organization was going to be in a good place, and I realized I wanted to move into more mission-driven work, and that this cancer experience that I had gone through had truly changed my... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

this important undertaking. “Good accounting rules are to good capitalism what good plumbing is to your home,” Ramanna says. No one thinks much about them until disaster strikes. “Tech startup culture and health View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

20 Jul 2017
News

KKR, a private-equity giant, lays out its succession plan

13 Oct 2016
News

Wells Fargo Boss Stumpf Resigns

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The development plan we created... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy. One analysis showed that... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

December 2012 (Revised October 2013)
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Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica

By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Asun Cano-Escoriaza

Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world and headquartered in Spain, has been issuing a corporate sustainability report since 2002. In its 2011 Sustainability report, the company included a "materiality matrix," and was one of only five... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Strategy; CSR; Corporate Social Responsibility; Communication Technology; Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Telecommunications Industry; Spain

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall) November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Mar 2013
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Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

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